Wings Do Nothing: Difference between revisions

* [[Sailor Moon]]'s [[Frilly Upgrade|Eternal form's]] seem to be purely decorative.

* Cell's wings in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' are a real waste in a series where flight is all about Ki. He flexes them occasionally, but the fact that he loses them in one form says everything.

* Gundam doesn't seem to be sure whether it wants to play this trope straight or subvert it. In some cases (such as Destiny, Freedom, Deathscythe, Aile Strike, Force Impulse and Zeta Gundam), the wings are just there for show, though Freedom does hide two guns in them, and Strike Freedom uses them to store its [[Attack Drone|DRAGOON system]]. In other cases (such as the Tallgeese, Wing and Wing Zero) the wings actually serve a purpose, as they contain several thrusters inside to increase speed. They're still static, except for Wing Zero in [[The Movie|Endless Waltz]].

 

** In the comic [[Blow You Away|Hay Lin]] was the only one who could even fly at all.

* Subverted in ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' - eventually. In the first season the Monarch and his henchmen's butterfly wings seem to be purely decorative - [[Word of God|the writers intended]] for the Monarch using his wings to fly in the early season 2 episode ''Hate Floats'' to be a big deal, but this didn't come across in the animation - ''then'' in the season finale, the henchmen discover, to their shock, that they can, in fact, fly.

* Dragon Maleficent from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' has wings coming out of her back, but for some reason her dragon form cannot fly.